Trusting Dumbledore (was: Snape and Dumbledores trust)

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 54729

Tammy:
> I feel that yes, we can trust every word out of Dumbledore's mouth 
to be true and 
> correct.  That' doesn't mean that we can trust his words to mean 
what we think they 
> do.

I agree. Dumbledore might err or speak in a way that is true, but his 
words may not be what they appear to be. Speaking of that, Dumbledore 
told Harry that there is no spell to undo death, but he has *never* 
said that death cannot be undone. We might find that there _is_ a way 
AD knows of, but it isn't a spell!

Dumbledore has broken his word at least *once*- when he didn't expell 
Harry&Ron in the end of CoS. "It seems that sometimes even the best 
of us must break our word". This is also a case where Dumbledore's 
earlier words lead Harry&Ron to think that he'd expell them from a 
school they just saved... Was *that* intentional or not?

Word of Truth that's "misleading" is not, IMO, as good as a lie. Not, 
because it's misleading part comes mainly from the other person 
jumping to conclusions and *might* be accidental. Not jumping to 
conclusions is something Dumbledore wants to teach; many people would 
expect from "I'd like to say few words" that what follows, is speech; 
instead, Dumbledore says: "Nitwit! Oddment! Blubber! Tweak!" - that 
*is* few words, but in a very unexpected way... So everyone *knows* 
that Dumbledore's words may not be what they seem to be...

Sirius Black's guilt over persuading James to use Pettigrew - he 
feels he caused their deaths because of that, although, the *real* 
traitor was Pettigrew, and the *real* murderer was Voldemort. Still, 
I did kill(as in cause death to) them - isn't untrue - but most 
definately not what it seems to be, but Sirius certainly did NOT 
intend to be misleading!

Maybe Dumbledore's words are sometimes misleading, but it is 
questionable whether he *intends* it!

-- Finwitch